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Simpson - Černý MSS 21.150, 1833-44
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Simpson, William Kelly - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1955-1964 (Creation)
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0.5 cm, 8 letters
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(1898-1970)
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8 letters from Simpson, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Simpson.
2 letters exchanged between Černý and C. Cann (Queen's College) regarding Simpson's proposed stay in Oxford.
Simpson negotiating a PhD position at Oxford, although Simpson eventually decided to do his PhD in the United States; Simpson's research into Egyptian accounts and accounting, as well as a reference to the Reisner papyri; Simpson published extensively on the latter, see
Simpson, W. K., Papyrus Reisner I: The Records of a Building Project in the Reign of Sesostris I (1963) (OEB 10466), and
Simpson, W. K., Papyrus Reisner II: Accounts of the dockyard workshop at This in the reign of Sesostris I (1965) (OEB 11529).
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angličtina